Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I recently purchased a couple of different drain enzyme/bacteria products to try on my older homes pipes. Given the difficulty of actually seeing inside a pipe to see if the products actually do anything, I decided to conduct a simple test to see if either the Natural Rapport or the Bio-Clear product actually decomposed potential drain pipe gunk. The details of the testing follow below, but the bottom line is, the Bio-Clear does seem to be able to breakdown organic materials and also may be breaking down bar soap While its not possible for me to examine its efficiency inside the drain pipes, I do have some confidence that this product does decompose material that may end up in my drain pipes. I was curious about whether any of the drain enzyme products actually might work to clean my old drain pipes, so I decided to conduct a simple test of two bacteria/enzyme products. My test setup was as follows: Three identical glass jars were filled with warm water. One jar would be my control and would only have the tap water in it. The other two jars had the recommended quantity of product added to each jar and the jars were gently stirred to disperse the product in the jars. After 10 minutes, I added the following into each jar: 5 cheerios to simulate typical organic house gunk, a small chuck of bar soap, and glop of ball bearing grease to each jar. After an hour the Bio-Clear jab had essentially decomposed the Cheerios, while the Rapport product and the water had no visible effect on them. The jar with water was beginning to get cloudy, while the Rapport jars water remained clear and the bio-clear jar was a brownish color. After 24 hours, the Cheerios remained intact in both the water and Rapport product, while they were disolved into little particles on the bottom of the Bio-Clear jar. The soap in the bio-clear solution was considerably softer than the soap in both the Rapport and water, which felt much more solid. The Rapport water continued to remain clear, but seems to have no impact on breaking any substances down. At the 24 hour mark, I also added two pieces of dried dog food to each jar. Within 2 hours the Bio-Clear solution had decomposed the dog food, while only water saturation seems to have taken place in both the Rapport and water solutions. After 48 hours, a pretzel stick was added to each solution. After an hour, obvious signs of decomposition and gassing was observed in the Bio-Clear solution, while no visible activity was observed in the other two solutions. The Cheerios and dog food are still essentially intact in both the Rapport and water solutions, but have now sunk to the bottom of the containers. The soap remains very firm as well in each of these containers, while it appears to be further softening in the Bio_clear solution. None of the three products appears to be having any impact on the ball bearing grease at this time. I will be continuing the tests and update this report should any meaningful information come out of the longer term testing. I understand that these tests are fairly simple and don’t necessarily represent what is happening within actual plumbing pipes. But it does appear that the Bio-Clear product does effectively decompose certain organic materials and that the bacteria/enzymes have continued to work during the short test period. I have some hope that this product may, if used regularly as directed, actually help to maintain or clean drain pipes given time. I have no relationship with any products tested and personally purchased each product. The opinions expressed are mine and are based on my observations using my test results.